"Your Excellency, our country places great importance on this development of another realm. If circumstances permit, we hope your church will dispatch its main forces. It would be even better if you could personally oversee it."
The familiar council Meeting Room, somewhat familiar officials, and an even more respectful attitude.
The half-year since the war had been both a major reshuffle and a reorganization of powers across the continental region. Many things had remained unchanged, but even more had changed beyond return.
Among the high-level powerhouses, newcomers had risen while old figures had fallen apart. The increasingly "young" youngster before them had, in fact, become a major player spanning several industries.
There was no need to mention the strength he had displayed. His potential and speed of rise were simply too dazzling, and his achievements on the battlefield earned him the title of "hero." What commanded the most respect, however, was that his main line of business was actually "public welfare."
"This is a benevolent god—a rational benevolent god."
To become a deity, or something similar, one had to be honest with oneself.
Though it sounded rather cruel and heartless, reality was no fairy tale. Good people did not necessarily live to see the ending. Statistics showed that the more selfish and self-centered a person was, the farther they tended to go in the supernatural world.
Yet the win-win, development-focused, and support-the-weak nature Lu PingAn displayed was exceptionally rare and beneficial. Big data calculations showed that the existence of such a deity benefited the entire nation, and even humanity as a whole.
This was also why Lu PingAn's church and company had developed by leaps and bounds in the Eastern Kingdom. In a sense, he truly had gained the aid of many.
Once he had shown no interest in politics